And lucky it was for Nina that braying “I GOT SOMETHING TO SAY” and waving hot sauce about was a success as the show made it clear she needed a comeback this week, as Ru spent much of her workroom time hovering around Nina desperately wanting to say “Inner Saboteur” but not actually doing it because she knew everyone would take the piss.

I guess it helps that, like a couple of other recent queens (Trixie Mattel Magnolia Crawford) Jasmine’s legend has been built almost entirely out of supplementary materials rather than anything that happened on the show itself, so it feels less lazy. Add to that the first week she really nailed it on the runway, as Fetish Madonna With The Big Booby Pasties, and I feel like Sasha deserved the win here.Įven more shocking than the fact that I rated a Sasha performance is the fact that someone picked a former contestant to impersonate for Snatch Game and it actually turned out well. Her punchlines as Marlene might have been a little pre-rehearsed but they all landed, and were all funny and the accent used to deliver them was gloriously fruity.

It turns out what I wanted from Sasha this whole time wasn’t to lighten up, but in fact to provide a bit more specificity to her pretensions and “braininess”. I think it’s because she finally made the leap from monotone talking heads about how AIDS is bad because people die from AIDS and many of them were really nice people so it’s really sad that they died from AIDS to seriously contemplating doing Judith Butler (!) for Snatch Game and constructing entire answers to questions about mobile phone apps in German. I (*shocker*) actually really liked Sasha in this episode.

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